FMLA: Maryland

Summary

The Maryland Flexible Leave Act requires that covered employers (those with 15 or more employees) allow their employees to use their earned paid leave for the illness of a spouse (including a same-sex spouse), child or parent. SeePurpose and Length of Leave.

Maryland's Parental Leave Act allows an eligible employee to take up to six workweeks of unpaid leave in any 12-month period for the birth of the employee's child and the placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care. SeeParental Leave Act.

Maryland employers with 50 or more employees must provide eligible employees with a one-day leave of absence on the day that employee's immediate family member is leaving for or returning from active military duty outside of the US as a member of the US armed forces. SeeFamily Military Leave.

Employers with 15 or more employees must provide the same leave benefits to employees whose disabilities are caused or contributed to by pregnancy or childbirth as are provided to employees with other temporary disabilities. SeePregnancy Disability Leave.

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